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349. Magistratus virum jndicat. (The magisterial office proclaims the man. Measure for Measure is founded on this idea; it is its key-note.)

Isab. I would to heaven I had your potency
And you were Isabel! Should it be thus ?
No: I would tell you what 'twere to be a judge,
And what a prisoner. (M. M. ii. 2.)

Lear. What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark in thine ears; change places, and handy-dandy, which is justice, which is the thief? (Lear, iv. 6.)

350. Da sapienti occasionem et addetur ei sapientia. -Prov. ix. 9. (Give occasion to a wise man, and his wisdom will be increased.)

(Quoted in Advt. of L. viii. 2; Aphorisms, Spedding, iv. 452.) The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance. (Ess. Of Discourse.)

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause of wit in others. 2 H. IV. i. 2.) Unless you laugh and minister occasion to (the barren rascal) he is gagged. (Tw. N. i. 5.)

O! these encounterers, so glib of tongue,

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That give occasion welcome ere it comes. (Tr. Cr. iv. 5.)

351. Vitæ me redde priori.-Hor. 1 Ep. i. 95. (Let me back to my former life.)

O, the mad days that I have spent!

O, the days that we have seen! (2 Hen. IV. iii. 2.)

• Where is the life that late I led,' say they.

Why here it is welcome this pleasant day.

If ever you have look'd on better days

We have seen better days.

Let us shake our heads and
We have seen better days.

(2 Hen. IV. iv. 5.)

(As Y. L. ii. 7.)

say . . .

(Tim. Ath. iv. 2.)

1 Occasion in Mr. Collier's text; a coasting in older editions.

352. I had rather know than be knowne.

(Compare 1 Cor. xiii. 12.)

Folio 90.

353. Orpheus in sylvis, inter delphinas Arion.-Virg. Ecl. viii. 56. (An Orpheus in the woods, an Arion among the dolphins.)

The proof and persuasion of rhetoric must be varied according to the audience, like a musician suiting himself to different ears. -Orpheus in sylvis, inter delphinas Arion. (Advt. of L. vi. 3.) You must lay lime to tangle her desires

By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Should be full fraught with serviceable vows. .
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again; and frame some feeling line.
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poet's sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps. &c.

(Tw. G. Ver. iii. 2.)

(And Mer. Ven. v. 1, 79, 82; Hen. VIII. iii. 1, song.) 354. Inopem me copia fecit. (Plenty made me poor.) · Full oft 'tis seen

Our wants secure us, and our mere defects

Prove our commodities. (Lear, iv. 1.)

Thou that art most rich, being poor. (Lear, i. 1.)

But poorly rich so wanteth in his store,

That, cloyed with much, he pineth still for more.

(Lucrece, 96.)

Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor. (Tim. Ath. iv. 2.) Wealth comes where an estate is least. (Ib. iv. 3.)

Nothing brings me all things. (Ib. v. 2.)

355. An instrument in tunyng.

Ham. Will you play upon this pipe?
Guil. My lord, I cannot.

Ham. You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. . . . Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will; though you may fret me, you cannot play upon me. (Ham. iii. 3.)

1 Wants in Mr. Collier's text; means in other editions.

That noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of tune. (Ham. iii. 1.)

She is well tuned now. (Oth. ii. 1.)
He is not in this tune, is he?
No, but he is out of tune thus.
Hope doth tune us otherwise.

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3, and i. 3, 110.) (Per. i. 1.)

356. Like as children do with their babies (dolls); when they have plaied enough with them, they take sport to undoe them.

Protest me the baby of a girl. (Macb. iii. 4.)

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport. (Lear, iv. 1.)

357. Faber quisque fortunæ suæ.--Appius in Sall. de Republ. Ordin. 1 (Every man is the artificer of his own fortune.)

(Quoted Essay on Fortune.) You may be faber fortuna propriæ.

(Let. to Essex, 1600.)
(Wis. Ant. xxviii.)

Every artificer rules over his work.
Let him be his own carver, and cut out his way.

You shall not be your own carver.

(R. II. ii. 3.) (Sophisms,' Advt. vi. 3.)

He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself.

(Hum. i. 3.)

Build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. (Tw. N. iii.)

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Fortune, put them into my hand. (See Cymb. iv. 1.)

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358. Hinc errores multiplices guli deliberant de summa nemo. tions of life, none on life as a whole; hence arise many errors.)

359. Utilitas magnos magnos hominesque deosque efficit auxiliis quoque favente suis.-Ov. Ex Pont. ii. 9, 35. (It is usefulness that makes men and gods great, as everyone favours what is of help to himself.)

I will use him well. A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite. (2 Hen. IV. v. 1.)

My uses cry to me: I must serve my time out of mine own. (Tim. Ath. ii. 1.)

(And see ib. iii. 2, 38, 89.)

Cæsar having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denies him rivality, would not let him partake in the glory of the action . . . seizes him so the poor third is death enlarge his confine. (Ant. Cl. iii. 5.)

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360. Qui in agone contendit a multis abstinet.-1 Cor. ix. 2. (He that striveth for the mastery abstains from many things.)

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A man of stricture and firm abstinence. (M. M. i. 4.)

He doth with holy abstinence subdue that in himself which

spurs on his power to qualify in others. (Ib. iv. 2.)

361. Quodque cupit sperat suæque illum oracula fallunt. Ov. Met. i. 49. (And what he desires he hopes for, and his own oracles deceive him.)

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. (2 H. IV. iv. 4). (See Mer. Ven. ii. 7, 38, 70; Cymb. i. 7, 6-9.)

Cleo. (Breaks the seal and reads.) The oracle is read.
Lords. Now blessed be the great Apollo! .
Leon. There is no truth at all in the oracle. . . .

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362. Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco. Erasmus, Adagia, 703.

(A serpent must have eaten.

another serpent before he can become a dragon.)

The strong and powerful become more so at the cost of the less powerful, as Aaron's rod, turned into a serpent, swallowed up those of the magicians.

(Quoted, with translation as above, in the Essay Of Fortune.)

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3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly

as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.

363. The Athenian's holiday.

(Per. ii. 1)

The. Now, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Go, Philostrate. Stir up the Athenian youth to merriment. Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. (Mid. N. D.)

This is a solemn rite

They owe bloom'd May, and the Athenians pay it
To the heart of ceremony. (Tw. Noble Kin. iii. 1.)

Scene: A forest near Athens-People a-Maying.

364. Optimi consiliari mortui. (The dead are the best counsellors.)

(Quoted in the Essay Of Counsel.)

Hamlet (pointing to the dead body of Polonius). Indeed, this counsellor

Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,

Who was in life a foolish prating knave. (Ham. iii. 4.)

Aur. Two may keep counsel when the third's away.

(Kills the nurse.)

365. Cum tot populis stipatus est.

(Tit. And. iv. 2.)

(Among so many people one is pressed or crowded-lit. he was thronged, &c. (Compare Mark v. 24.)

The crowd that follows Cæsar at the heels. .

Will crowd a feeble man almost to death. (Jul. Cæs. ii. 2.)

God save you, sir, where have you been broiling?

Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger could not be wedged in more. . . . No man living could say "This is my wife there,' all were woven so strangely in one piece. (Hen. VIII. iv. 1.)

(See also Cor. ii. 1, 218–228; Hen. VIII. Prol.)

366. In tot populis vis una fides. peoples (nations) force is the only faith.

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We may not take up the third sword; religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. (See Of Unity in Religion, Spedding, Works, vol. vi.

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